In keeping with the general atmosphere of 2020, I was researching the origin of Murphy’s Law on a coffee break between clients. We are al...

Last week, my husband and I had lunch with three of our friends, Anna, Franz and their adult daughter, Erika. Erika happens to have Down ...

When you are a kid, you cannot wait to celebrate your next birthday. Besides the party and the cake and, of course, the presents, you hav...

Three social media posts caught my eye, this past week. The first was an article about opposition to the decision of a café that employs ...

Last week, my sons’ summer program was not in session. While I enjoyed spending time with my boys—among other things like re-learning how...

With very little public areas of any kind open in Illinois, besides our many delightful forest preserves, my son and his summer program m...

Because my son’s summer program is so small, it is (thankfully) in regular session, despite the fact that Illinois is only partially reop...

A couple of weeks ago, I took my son and a friend of his to a local forest preserve—that being one of the few things open during the pand...

My son was about to have his first in-person, life parkour practice in months. There would be only 10 kids. They would work out in the gy...

My son needs a lot of coaching to complete a project, assigned to him by someone else—say a teacher. But he has 150% focus and puts in 20...

A listserve on which I participate featured a recent exchange among some parents of adults with intellectual and developmental disabiliti...

“They say you cannot have your cake and eat it too…but ain’t that what ya supposed to do?” (Anonymous) A number of my clients with disabi...

My family and I have started raising “backyard” chickens. We put a lot of thought into this project because the village has restrictions ...

The Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Board of Trustees has released its annual financial analysis report. The trust fund that suppo...

At first glance, you may think that you (if you have a disability) do not or your family member who has a disability, does not qualify fo...

Two days ago, I looked out my windows on snow and at a thermometer reading of 28°F. Less than two weeks ago, it was so summer-like hot, m...

Advocates have succeeded. The Social Security Administration and the Treasury De- partment have have found a way to deliver the economic...

The only constant in life is change,” is attributed to Heraclitus (540-480 BCE). Having changed our ways of working, school, shopping and...

My son’s favorite subjects are math and science. His is preferred mode of learning is activity. His least-preferred mode of learning is r...

My son goes to a tiny Montessori school that offers schooling to the equivalent of pre-K through 12th grade and that has been doing an ex...